Founder and EP, Stuart Speechly
Stuart's 20+ years of production experience includes working with many of London’s top commercial production companies and alongside several of the world’s best advertising directors, photographers, agencies and international brands.
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In 2006, as Head of Integrated Production at Saatchi & Saatchi, Switzerland, Stuart helmed the agency's global production work on advertisers including General Mills, Orange, Carlsberg, SEAT and Novartis before leaving to set up Pathfinder Media in Mallorca, Spain in 2009. There he established an innovative and streamlined content creation studio with direct production relationship's with global giants Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever producing work for them across Europe and in Southern Africa.
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In 2013 he started Calm Ocean to assist clients in creating outstanding content. Projects based out of Geneva, London, Mallorca, Portland, Detroit, Baltimore and Atlanta have seen him working on international campaigns for multinationals including Nespresso, Microsoft, Heineken, Etihad and Jim Beam, to name a few, as well as on content and launches for sports brands like Adidas, Rolex, Camelbak, the International Volleyball Federation and DAZN.
Producer and Director, Gavin Northover
Gavin brings to Calm Ocean some heavy-lifting and varied production experience, originally setting out on the path as an award winning DOP, with experience on features, commercials and documentaries including work for Netflix, CBS, the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera.
A deserved previous recipient of awards and commendations at the prestigious SxSW festival, the East London Film Festival, the New York TV and Film festival and the Japan Prize he then took the leap to the production side.
More recently he has worked on films for Al Jazeera and BBC as Director and Producer wherein he has found his content creation niche.
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Although Mallorca-based, Gavin spends much of the year on planes, trains and automobiles on our international projects when not overseeing productions locally within the Balearics.
